International Development Grant
Enhancing Extractive Sector Benefit Sharing
Project Number: CA-3-D000772001
Status: Closed
Country/Region:
Maximum Contribution: $19,700,000.00
Start Date: March 24, 2016
End Date: September 29, 2023
Duration: 7.5 years
Project Description
This project aims to improve the social and economic benefits for communities including the poorest and most vulnerable hosting natural resources development projects in Ghana Guinea Kenya and Côte d’Ivoire. It contributes to the creation of jobs generation of revenues for local businesses and long-term economic development in these communities. Project activities include: (1) mapping and creating a database of local suppliers including women-owned companies; (2) assessing potential economic development initiatives linked to industry presence especially ones that would benefit women and youth; (3) delivering training to community members allowing them to actively participate in the design and monitoring of these initiatives; and (4) delivering training to local businesses on business management health and safety and environment standards gender equality and harassment.
Expected Results
The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) increased participation by local businesses particularly female- and youth-led in the supply chains of natural resources development activities; (2) increased economic opportunities for businesses particularly female- and youth-led in communities hosting natural resources development projects; and (3) improved support for long-term economic development in these communities.
Progress & Results Achieved
Results achieved at the end of the project (June 2023) include: (1) more than 8 000 people have been trained as a part of the program in a large number of different institutions. Notably the share of women trained was closer to 50% although the target was limited to 36% meaning the program exceeded its expectations; (2) the introduction of ADAV (Association pour le Développement d’Azito Village - Azito Village Development Association) in Côte d’Ivoire a gender-inclusive governance structure was established during the project. ADAV in collaboration with the Village Council effectively applied project-backed best practices to formulate a vision develop plans and execute community development projects by the project's completion. Notably among the twenty-one selected members of ADAV four women now hold positions demonstrating a more inclusive approach to community governance; (3) more than 50% of the targeted Micro- Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) in Ghana have been women owned reflecting the large share of women owned companies on that level (especially micro and small enterprises); (4) in Guinea the project supported access to finance for registered suppliers via the Buyers and Suppliers’ Marketplace (BSM). BSM has realized that access to finance presents a major challenge to local content and has worked with financing institutions to help provide financing to suppliers to allow them to bid on contracts. Multiple interviewees voiced that they were only able to act as suppliers thanks to various BSM-initiated finance initiatives including with banks such as Banque Islamique de Guinee. More than USD 12 million in bank financing to small and midsize enterprises (SMEs) has been mobilized through this support; and (5) in Kenya the development of the strategy for the Biashara (Enterprise) Center and its satellite locations across Turkana County was the foundation for the planning of the One-Stop-Shop/Biashara-Huduma Center created in the Kakuma
Key Information
Executing Agency:
IFC - International Finance Corporation
Reporting Organization:
Global Affairs Canada
Program:
WGM Africa
Last Modified:
September 19, 2025
Development Classifications
DAC Sector:
Aid Type: Project-type interventions
Collaboration: Bilateral
Finance Type: Aid grant excluding debt reorganisation
Selection Mechanism:
Department-Initiated